OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #255, NOVEMBER 12, 2025.

 

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #255, NOVEMBER 12, 2025.   Compiled by Dick Bennett.

 

Dick Bennett.  We Could Be Stronger Nuclear Resisters Now.

Gerry Condon.  VFP.  Reclaim Armistice Day.
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan.  “Trump’s Orwellian Militarization of American Cities.”
Chris Hedges.  “The Death House.”

 

 

 

Dick Bennett.   WE COULD BE STRONGER RESISTERS NOW.

When the Hiroshima/Nagasaki Remembrance was inaugurated during the 1960s/70s by our anti-Vietnam War Peace Organizing Committee, we were awake thanks to John Hersey’s book Hiroshima (1946) and Burdick’s and Wheeler’s Fail-Safe (1962) and many other writers and organizations, especially religious.  And since the 1980s a rising wave of protest against nuclear weapons has lifted the humanity of the “woke.”   For examples, E. P. Thompson’s and Dan Smith’s collection of articles, Protest and Survive appeared in 1981, Jonathan Schell’s The Fate of the Earth (1982) and The Abolition (1984) , Dr. Helen Caldicott’s Missile Envy  (1984), Richard McSorley’s (S.J.), It’s a Sin to Build a Nuclear Weapon (ed. John Dear, S.J.) (1991).  An annotated bibliography of books and articles opposing nuclear weapons would require volumes.  Our movement is solidly grounded intellectually and ethically.

          But the movement to make those weapons illegal, to make those who plan and produce nuclear weapons criminals under international law, moved more slowly, for the obvious reason that the nuclear armed leaders wanted the weapons.  No rational arguments or faith appeals could sway them, and they faced no punishment.    That impunity changed dramatically when the United Nations General Assembly in 2022 voted overwhelmingly to declare the weapons illegal in international law by its Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).  Henceforth, the planners and the builders of nuclear weapons are lawless individuals.   They are pariahs in international law.    The leaders of the nuclear nations are now not only historically and ethically anathema to humankind, but legally also.  The malefactors could be arrested.  
     While military-corporate-political criminals develop more powerful weapons for killing, protesters of nuclear weapons discover more pathways for living.

 

[VFP-all] Reclaim Armistice Day 2025 - Veterans For Peace

Gerry Condon via uark.onmicrosoft.com

11:39 AM (25 minutes ago)

RECLAIM ARMISTICE DAY 2025 - Veterans for Peace

Until Never Again Means Never Again for Anyone

From Erasure to Resistance

On November 11, 1918, the guns finally fell silent. The “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” marked a global sigh of relief and a promise: War No More. Armistice Day was meant to remind future generations of the cost of empire and the necessity of peace.

In the United States, that meaning was later erased. In 1954 Congress renamed it Veterans Day, shifting the focus from ending war to glorifying it. A day of peace became a billboard for endless wars and the corporations that profit from them. That erasure serves the same interests that erase truth everywhere—from Palestine to our own communities. 

https://popularresistance.org/reclaim-armistice-day-2025/

 

Demand 60 Minutes Stop Stoking War!      Friend,  I wrote a letter for the Action Network letter campaign: Demand 60 Minutes Stop Stoking War!.   CBS’s 60 Minutes has been spreading dangerous pro-war propaganda and pushing false narratives about China and Venezuela that serve the interests of the U.S. empire. We can’t let one of the most influential news programs in the country become a megaphone for militarism and regime change. Send this letter to the producers of 60 Minutes and demand that CBS stop acting as a mouthpiece for U.S. wars. Together, we can hold the media accountable and push back against the lies driving us toward war.     Can you join me and write a letter? Click here: https://www.codepink.org/60minchinavz?source=email&

 

Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan.  Column.   “Trump’s Orwellian Militarization of American Cities. “  Democracy Now!  October 09, 2025.

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Chris Hedges.  “The Death House.”  Chris Hedges Report (10-30-25).  

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